the iphone 5 looks better. the S3's shape looks horrible and doesn't make any sense other than to avoid a patent lawsuit from apple.

get a galaxy nexus.

Not only that, S3's materials are absurdly cheap. I know it is supposed to destroy the rest spec-wise (though there are 2 versions and just one is awesome), but they cheap out too much.

HTC is miles better in both regards.

As for the iphone5, not interested.

forgot about the one x/s. those look decent.

The problem with the S3 is the feel. It's not that the materials are bad because they are supposedly super resistant, it's that they feel like cheap plastic.

have u used one? it felt fine to me. i think u just dont like the look of the plastic.

Tried it 3 times, because I wanted to buy one. I know I'm (very) picky about materials, but more than looks I need everything to feel and sound decent.

its subjective i guess. ive had an s1 for 2 years, it looks good, feels pretty plasticky but that was fine for me. and it has withstood some pretty heavy abuse.

i recently had a chance to compare an s3 and a one x and both felt equally plasticky to me.

ps: also wtf is with the phones being dual core in the usa. fucking alskdjflaskjdflaskjflkasjflkasdjf.

Galaxy Nexus or S3 if you want to get something actually worth the money.

wmo

always gets me

srsly dude get a Samsung !!

happy HTC sensation user here. don't get Apple, If you're not a fanboy you will be dissapointed.

Screw Apple and Samsung. Go Xiaomi Mi-Two. It's going to be released next month.

Just googled that thing, looks crazy good for the price ! GO CAPITALIST CHINA

YES! Brain cancer for everyone!

Lumia 920!
:D :D

S3 is objectively the best phone out there. IPhone is a joke (kinda like the new razer mouse with 2 sensors).

I prefer HTC. At the end of the day its all about what you find appealing

S3? haha it's far from best. size is horrible like holding a brick next to your head and materials are cheap like someone mentioned. specs are nothing special since almost all smart phones are pretty decent in speed anyway.
the touchscreen works best on iPhone just like the trackpad on Apple laptops. not to mention iOS and itunes which are well organized, sorted and maintained to run which makes it a safe enviroment to work in.

iOS is horrible. S3 is too big and plasty. iPhone and S3 lacks optical scroll wheel, which is why I use my HTC Desire and will do untill another phone with REAL BUTTONS and optical scrill wheel gets realeased.

Also Android is a Linux dist. You can't compare any OS vs Linux if speed and safety is what you want imo. My GF's HTC Desire boots after around 30 sec.

iOS is everything but horrible. people want simplicity and functionality thats something Linux can not provide. linux is still aimed at so called "enhusiasts".
HTC are OK phones. they have a very high rate of 'breaking-down' tho.

they have a very high rate of 'breaking-down' tho.



not in my experiece

this. if you take care of htc reasonably (not throw it down the ladder from 4m high on the pavement like my m8 did) it should hold up VERY well

iOS is officially certified as a unix os :} generalizations like 'linux is always slow as fuck' make no sense today.

Depends on your budget...

If its not a problem, i will always advise Blackberry :-)


IF you got limited founds, then go for some s galaxy spinoffs, or HTC

BB's are for people that still enjoy working in ms dos.
secure communication is pretty decent tho!

explain please

endless 1 line menus in b&w. not to mention RIM is currently having big financial problems implying less people like it.
also the qwerty keyboard is something nery few people want its either a classic phone with a standart keyboard or a touch screen phone. not everyone has small fingers.

you obviously never typed on a qwerty keyboard in a phone :-0

its much more enjoyable, even with big fingers, than typing on a touch screen. i myself have rather thick fingers, and never had problems with qwerty phones.

if your life revolves around communication like emails and such (like it will for business people that travel alot) BB is the way to go.

if you want apps and a phone to mess around with, android or apple is for you ;)

lumia is better than its reputation and probably the cheapest option too!

too bad i have most of my music on iCloud(c)(tm) now, which i pirated and then iMatched(c)(tm), which allows me to listen to it anywhere with iphone. windows phone 8 is missing important pieces of the ecosystem.

i bet it has its own systems and works fine if you are bothered changing all of those to windowsphone ones :F it's kinda shame if 920 (arguably the best phone in market (soon)) doesn't take off only because of people don't wanna change to a new ecosystem

i wouldn't bet on it. as far as I know, they don't have any matching service. only amazon, and google have those, and they don't support internationalization nearly as well as iTunes.

theres so many faults in your argument -_
1. if you run out of bandwidth allowance or cant get a signal (sucks for searching for cuties nearby :<) then you have no music
2. an alternative way to listen to your music anywhere on iphone? make use of the however many GBs of storage you have on offer...

storing in the cloud makes no sense at all for a justification. you may as well just use mp3 ringtone maker app to stream from google or use last.fm or something

that said it should be on your SD card anyways -_

i wasn't making an argument, i was stating my requirement for a phone. however, there are many faults in your argument -_

1. if you are running out of bandwith, you are poor. i am not poor, i don't care. also, i am on wireless most of the time and most of the stuff is cached.
2. an alternative way to listen to music anywhere on iphone? i don't need one. i have 32GB of storage on mine, and it's being used to cache the songs I listen to the most, out of 70GB I have.

storing in the cloud makes all the sense, because it is convenient, and I don't have to set up a server or think about it. you may as well actually try the service instead of making shit up because the quality of the music based on my usage is indistinguishable from the original. in fact, I have never heard it downsample, even with a bad signal, it just chooses to stop. also, I do stream from last.fm, when I want to listen to new music. however, most of the time i know exactly what I want to listen to, i have already downloaded and its in my library.

no, it shouldn't be on my sd card, or on anything. what should be, is that I can listen to whatever I want, wherever I am, without the slightest concern about where the music is coming from.

exactly, 32GB storage is more than enough for storing your music. even most of that 32gb storage wouldnt be required because you wouldnt listen to that much music regularly enough (500 songs would use 2GB~). i just have 16gb storage and even then i just use less than 1GB for music...even then i dont listen to most of the songs on there

cant use the service~ phone is android & i never use my ipod now. more importantly I dont need to~ store music that i actually listen to on my phone so i can listen to i without it "stopping" because of any signal while i browse the net at full speed without music affecting the speed ;p

its not a requirement, its some strange reasoning~
you could c+p your songs once & forget the service np

"exactly, 32GB storage is more than enough for storing your music."

what? is 32GB more than enough for storing 70GB of my music?

yeah, it's a requirement. i don't want to c+p my songs. i don't want to know how much storage my iphone has. i want to listen to any song. it is impossible with what you're suggesting, yet possible with what I already have, even if a song stutters once in the blue moon. which part of how what I have is most convenient, and is a requirement for me to get any other phone, do you not understand?

stupidest self-locking requirement ever

and you dont need 70GB of storage for your music. just like how my pc's music folder is 10GB. i dont need 10GB of music on my phone because 90% of those songs i havent listened to in the last year. wasted space. just like theres no reason to store 3-4 movies on at one time unless you have a 10 hour round trip to do

it is the stupidest thing ever to say that me choosing what is the most convenient thing is somehow a 'stupid requirement'.

no, i don't need 70GB of storage for my music. I have 70GB of music. period. it is a medium sized collection with a lot of artists and genres I want to be able to listen to. i happen to be able to do it, and i see no reason to stop doing it. I don't care how much music you have, or what your habits or shitty tastes are, but such are my tastes. i'm not going to tell you that you are stupid because your entire world view can fit on a 3.5 floppy, but I am going to tell you to stop projecting and giving out shitty advice. regardless of how much local storage one has, internet and instantaneous communication will always be better than stone tablets. you can't stop the future.

?? i have unlimited internet and have chat consantly turned on...doesnt mean keeping all your music there is a good idea. eventually apples cloud will crash for a while like amazon's & if youre unlucky it'll be at a time where youre travelling a long distance & wanted it

??? no, a cloud isn't going to crush, neither is internet. unless its a crush of the civilization, because it's a distributed server system. even if there is a disruption in service in some unlikely scenario, why the fuck would I choose to voluntarily disrupt my service right now? it's like telling me I should cut off my leg and use crutches because I might be temporarily paralyzed for a few days in the future. yeah, thanks a lot, brilliant idea!

Android > iOS imo

But the S3 feels like a cheap plastic brick. "HTC One X" maybe? Comes with Tegra3 chipset and 720p display. Even though the Samsungs are pretty good technically, I'd never buy one.

If I wanted to flash my phone I'd buy HTC as well just because of the manufacturing quality. However, I got the nexus because it gets the newest stuff first and I don't feel like changing the ROM.

You'd have to be careful tho. Afaik there are some nexus variants where the updates are managed by Samsung. I think branded ones for example.

Some random guy laughed at me in uni when he heard I didn't have a smart phone. Guess I don't count as c00l anymore :(.

I feel you :(

Tell people it's vintage

Heritage!

rofl

random.

Everybody who is anybody owns a smart phone. You're a nobody.

teel em u not need a smartphone since ure smart yourself

nokia 3310 brofist

Nah. You just experienced another fact by first hand that idiots DO go to universities.

I wasn't really offended rather buffled that even "grown" up people categorize persons on their possessions like teenagers did with cell phones back then. But y stupid people do study too and not overly few :P

get a DUMB phone instead

No

Note 2

Smart Phones aren't really that smart, I tried to use the calculator app on mine to divide by zero and it wouldn't do it.

htc one x

galaxy s2 skyrocket user. its better than my iphone 4 was. The iphone 4 was bulit better than the skyrocket, but everyone puts a fuckin' case on their phone anyway. All you see is the screen and a few buttons. The screen is great.

No shit it is better. iPhone 4 is a piece of shit in a shiny case.

if you know anyone going to china get them to get you a Xiaomi (M1)
or maybe its on ebay. it matches/outperforms an iphone 4 in everything except the camera. you can get it for £120 now. they compared the cost of materials vs an iphone & the iphone was only £10 more...but the price diff...

or wait a couple months for the new version (Xiaomi M2)...iphone 4s camera, quad core, 2gb ram, better gfx card, front cam (£120 version just has a back cam)...£200

cpu+gfx card is better than the galaxy s3, nokia 920 & xperia V (wiki says)

i watched someone scrolling their photo gallery with an i3 and the shit was so slow -_

fuck smart phones. I use a nokia rm 258 and it suits all my needs - it's robust, you can call niggaz and write letterz 'n' shit.
All this ultra-modern iphone samsung hyundai bmw bullshit is superfluous.

doubt jamalz gives approves this

thats what i was saying until this year (until they i had a sony w810i) but for £100-200 its pretty awesome. i have all software that wouldnt run on the 810i, the browser is actually usable (tried using the w810i for internet once in the uk)
only gay thing is no buttons for games

how do you quake in china?

you just wait for one and then hit the streets

secret. but none of this map rotation shit yo
im back in UK now

I feel for you. What I pretty much use my phone besides occasional calls, is to use the flashlight of the 5 MPixel (owowowowowowow) camera to illuminate in the dark.

Goophone i5, sorted.

http://android-sale.com/goophone-i5.html

I like the Nokia handhelds that have snake.

my xiaomi has snake 2. with a 3310 GUI

Nokia 3310 !

Do you really need one? I dont even have internet on mine because I like to be disconnected for a time, all i do is listen to music, reading comics and 'calling nigz'.

i dont need that crap

phone is for texting and calling even if i had one i dont know what i would do with that phone

check out ESR. then when you spot the razer girl doing a new modelling gig you can update ESR live from the scene

But what do you do while taking a shit?

relax and enjoy the aroma of rich smells spreading through air...

ESR at its finest.

11:11.. interesting...

I need mine for work. Constant e-mail and internet usage, gps on the fly, decent photos and many useful apps (dropbox, google calendar and document etc) when I'm working. Otherwise I would agree, but right now without a smartphone I'm in deep, deep shit.

sony ericsson xperia ray

interesting phone with bravia screen. not bad. pretty slick design and not too big.

yeah the size was the main reason i got it.

but the rest is also really good! very happy with it.

-great screen
-great battery life
-fast & fluid menu
-supports ice cream sandwich
-cheap

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobil...477/review

... what about omnia, its gotta be cheaper by now.

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/wp-content/upload...andset.jpg

... i browsed abit... and the cheapest one here in slovenia was 120€... that's definitly a good price rite?

If you have money -> S3 if you don't then get the S2.

There is no need to get another phone. If you are a apple fan, then get the iphone(s), but I would not recommend it :)

I had to go with the s3.. I really didn't like my 4s

Nokia Lumia 920 or 820.

anyone has any thought on samsung ativs s?

has anyone tried the motorola atrix? heard good things about it + seems like its got solid specs.

ive got an s3, it works well. i can see why apple went with the tall and slim screen model though as the s3 is right on the limit of usability with one hand.

seeing as i use my phone to phone,txt,listen to music, browse reddit on the go, watch youtube videos in bed at night and use maps (lol@ iOS6) to get around it does its job well.

for my uses the big screen does its job well and comes in very handy, for people that have to use their phone alot for games and other apps and what not, the big form factor may be an issue.

one thing to consider about apple is the current maps debacle. hopefully google will get their maps app out quickly enough, but if they dont, be aware that the new iOS6 maps app is very poor when it comes to basic functionality - maps lack alot of detail and are often inaccurate. for me, this is a deal breaker as the maps function is just about one of the best things a smartphone does... it sets a precedent where apple now ship new software/functionality which is inferior in quality only because it benefits them in their techwar with google and not their customers.

I would get an android phone, just bear in mind that some of the samsung devices definately cross into tablet country (i have a galaxy tab and its a POS) so make sure you get one thats comfortable for you and what you intend to use it for.

As someone who updated to iOS6 I had to lol at the maps... Apple really fucked them up big time.

i dont find it a deal breaker since u have hundreds of map apps to buy which work far better then anything on default by google or apple. since these phones cost some real money it shoudn't be an issue to buy the app not to mention that for google maps its using data transfer so when u go abroad u cant use coz of the roaming charges. with the app you just dl the maps u need and use the gps.

im not talking about features and what not which is what these mapping apps bring, but the underlying dataset.

for me, google has done a simply amazing job on this and their maps (whilst by no means perfect) are simply alot more usable. it takes years to build up the amount of data and even more work to interpret and deliver it to consumers in a good way.

this pic is a good example:

http://i.imgur.com/MyWGT.jpg

(i can make google maps available offline aswell...)

also, i cannot in good faith patronise a company that so blatently puts its own interests above those of its customers. The removal of google apps has nothing to do with delivering better service or functionality, its all about limiting competition and locking users into the walled garden.

I dont know about you but i buy products that serve me, and not the other way around.

rationalise it however you want but this move makes clear as day what everyone always suspected.

"also, i cannot in good faith patronise a company that so blatently puts its own interests above those of its customers"

goes to google as much as it does to apple if not more. no other company has abused more personal rights and violeted private policies than google.

and i definitely buy products that serve me thats why i have an iphone and still is the best phone on the market. it serves me and i dont serve it. i dont have to spend hours on simple scrolling though the menus or sending emails and such. i want a tool and i want it to be easy to use. i dont have time to spend on configuring it or figuring it out. and google has "borrowed" everything from iphone/ios there is to borrow layout and graphics.
if you were to put away your personal preferences and personal anguish and envy on people that have it you might realize that theres a better phone then what you have and blatantly support.

edit: also i support a company that has character and is innovative and is ready to put forward fresh ideas and go with the risk just because they know its better.

Lumia 920 looks interesting wp8 seems to be good, Nokia maps i know is very good. But dunno about marketplace. I tried wp7 when it was new and kinda liked it, but marketplace was miles behind appstore and playstore( which was expected but didnt think it would be as bad as it was or rather didnt think it would annoy me as much as it did). Anyone using wp7 now thats also have used iphone/android phones? If so are you happy with the state of wp in terms of apps, functionality? Etc.

Smartphones... The current different models are good for different people.

iOS is suited to the average Joe, the standard people who just want their phones to do phone stuff (i mean basic smartphone operations like web browsing,media, communicating) and not much else. And they want their phone to be amazing at that simplistic stuff.

Android is stupendously better for people who like to tinker with their phones, customize them, do advanced stuff and all in all use their phone as a portable version of a full-on desktop computer. Apple is no match for the ease and simplicity with which android supports that sort of stuff.

As for HTC vs Samsung, just whatever both have their perks but it's nothing major. Samsung has the SAMOLED screen which rapes S-LCD in terms of contrast and vibrant colours and outdoor visibility. You may prefer the stylish HTC looks. You may want a massive screen and tons of unique and useful features (Galaxy Note 2). None of them are amazingly better than the other so there is really no need to vehemently defend your camp or even exhibit any degree of fanboyism.

Good luck with whatever you choose!

LG G2 @ Phone Arena

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nexus 5 - my next moldova phone

i hear blackberry should be the new thing, now lets see what nokia will come up with new symbian.

HAHA ... Symbian is dead as my BADA OS [Samsung GT8500 Wave] since Microsoft bought Nokia

The Nokia 808 is the last Symbian Phone, and it is not cheap by any means, but the price dropped heavely ... i would by it, dont need apps ...

was a joke, fell flat i guess, didn't know either still was in the market.

my nexus 4 went drowning in the river few weeks ago :P
waiting for nexus 5 to come out. stock android ftw!

using sony ericsson c905 atm

my nexus 4 front glass cracked and touch input would no longer properly. i wasn't fond of lg's repair policy nor could i find a reasonable screen part for cheap so i bought a one s for $180 and installed cm10.1 :)

my nexus one is still alive and kicking :D
gonna update though since it's fucking slow nowadays

this thread is very outdated, let it die

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